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Tuesday, March 17, 2026
TopicPolitical murders

Topic: political murders

A half-burnt body & a letter — Tamil Nadu Police probe Congress leader’s death, suspect murder

Congress’ Tirunelveli East president K.P.K. Jayakumar Dhanasingh was found dead Saturday. Letter purportedly written by him alleges he had received death threats from debtors.

Bengal police sees no political link yet murders of ‘RSS family’ assume communal overtones

RSS sympathiser Bandhu Prakash Pal, his wife & minor son were brutally murdered in their Murshidabad home Tuesday. Police are probing 'property dispute angle'.

The fight in this Kerala seat is over political murders, not jobs or development

CPM candidate for Vadakara is P. Jayarajan, accused in 2 political murders and believed to behind Left's violence in the region. This has put off even the Left's most ardent supporters.

On Camera

Modi’s three Iran blunders lead to one question—where’s strategic autonomy?

Three avoidable blunders in PM Modi's handling of the US-Israel attack on Iran have laid bare the hollowness of his claims to global leadership.

Free gas to waivers, govt-owned gas firms roll out incentives to push households from LPG to PNG

IGL, MGL & other city gas distributors announce benefits to encourage LPG users to shift to piped natural gas as Centre flags concerns over LPG supply in the wake of Iran conflict.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.